“Progress will be slow, journey will be rough but we are heading for the stars!”The Big D-day, or the big departure day was long gone, a fading tidbit of past in the memory banks of semiconscious computers running almost all the major and minor functions and systems of the starships taking mankind to new, never explored star systems and galaxies. Yet those words, said on the Big D-day were to be found on every CCCP (compact crew conduct protocol) manual of all crew members of Terran star ships, not only to remind them of the arduous tasks ahead but also about their destination. Or rather, destinations, as the Terran Fleet was scattered all around the known and unknown space.
So this is the start of my Astroguestarpolismunda project, depicting the Engine Room 4 of the Terran Star Ship Sampo (see, a Kalevala reference
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I have bought some 1/48 scale Soviet airfield plates by ICM (four boxes actually!).
They have quite a nice surface detail:
I have also some 250mm x 250mm square 2mm thick boards that will be used to form a 1000mm x 1000mm gaming board, giving me plenty of variation for different set-ups:
Combined with the above mentioned air-field plates one piece will look something like this:
Some of the pieces will then later on house different objects, such as the the GIO (Gas-like Ion Outputter) [Micro-Art generator]:
Some scenery pieces are of my own casting efforts:
The cast piece, combined with a real distributor cap (missing plasma coils and extra bits) becomes a crucial part of the engine room scenery:
And of course there will be ship's crew as well, here some members of STERN-4 (Security Team Engine Room 4) are shown, just for the scale:
I am also making few 250mm x 500mm pieces, example the GIO above needs a bigger base so minis can go around it and I can add computer terminals etc next to it. And of course there will be structural walls, piping along the floors etc to add character to single boards.
Besides the security team there will be the maintenance crew (mainly brilliant Astropolis minis), GIO team (Astropolis and FW so far), pirates (classic GW), squats (classic GW) etc etc.
Colourwise:
- floors will be either dirty grey (the airfield plates) or rusty/worn metal (plasticard)
- machinery will be worn/faded light blue
- robots/maintenance vehicles will be worn/faded yellow
- GIO team will wear orange
- maintenance crew will wear light blue
- security team will wear either classic RT greys or then white
Anyhow, that's the plan... but progress will be slow and journey will be rough
I plan to make (all) terrain ready, then paint it and then it's time to concentrate on minis. And if I have time and patience I can make also corridors and use the terrain pieces not only as one combined board but also in a more dungeon crawl of way.
Good ideas about different scifi related terrain pieces such as computer consoles etc and other suggestions are more than welcome.